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The University of Pennsylvania 



In the City of Philadelphia are some of the oldest and many of the most in- 
teresting historical landmarks in America. Here, on the banks of the Dela- 
ware, William Penn landed in 1682; here are Independence Hall, in which 
the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776; Carpenters' Hall, in 
which the First Continental Congress met; Congress Hall, in which the early 
law-makers held sessions from 1790 to 1800'; the Ross House, in which the 
flag was designed; Penn's cottage, and many old mansions which were oc- 
cupied in Colonial days by men whose names are now world famous. The 
surroundings of Philadelphia are no less interesting historically, and close 
by are the scenes of many battles and encampments during the War for In- 
dependence. 

Philadelphia is also the home of some of the earliest educational and scien- 
tific institutions, of whose original buildings naturally but a few traces re- 
main, but most of which have enjoyed a continuous existence. First of 
these is the University of Pennsylvania, founded by Benjamin Franklin. 
The original building has long since been demolished, and the site of the 
University has changed several times in order that its growth might not be 
hindered. Since 1872, the University of Pennsylvania has been located in 
West Philadelphia, where its expansion has been remarkable. From a 
single building at Fourth and Arch streets, in 1740, it has now spread over a 
campus covering more than sixty acres, upon which there is a group of sev- 
enty buildings. 

The University is located conveniently to the centre of the city. In twelve 
minutes one may ride on the electric cars from the campus to City Hall, 
which is the centre of a population of more than a million and a half. The 
subway and elevated roads, now in course of construction, will make the 
journey still shorter. 

The campus forms a pleasing site for the many handsome buildings. Well- 
kept walks wind about the grounds which are diversified by terraces, shrub- 



bery and many different species of trees. Most of the buildings are over- 
grown with ivy, and partly concealed behind a profusion of bushes and foliage. 
The Botanic Gardens, with their heavily shaded walks twining around flower 
beds, the lily and lotus ponds; the green houses, filled with rich collections 
of rare plants from all parts of the world; and Hamilton Walk, shaded with 
tall poplars, weeping willows, maples, oaks and other American shade trees 
planted as memorials to eminent Pennsylvanians — all combine to form one 
of the "sights of the city." 

A walk of a few blocks from the campus takes one to the borders of Fair- 
mount Park which reaches away northward with its three thousand five 
hundred acres of valleys and hills, through which wind the Schuylkill River 
and Wissahickon Creek. On the banks of the Schuylkill is the College Boat- 
house, where students may secure boats, shells or canoes for practice or for a 
spin upon the National Rowing Course. The river has been the scene of 
many races of American college crews, and is the course upon which the 
national regattas are held. The river drive extends from Pennsylvania's 
boathouse along the east bank of the Schuylkill and up the Wissahickon 
Creek for a distance of eleven miles through a picturesque valley. The 
plans of the City Parks Association provide for the extension of the park sys- 
tem so that the University campus will ultimately be connected, by a boule- 
vard, with Fairmount Park on the north and with Bartram's Botanic Gardens 
on the south, and also with numerous small parks, thus forming a continuous 
park system which will ultimately encircle the entire city. 



BUILDINGS All the principal buildings of the University, except those of the Astronomical 

Observatory, are located on the grounds in West Philadelphia. The latter 
have been built on a hill several miles from the campus, away from the hazy 
sky and vibrations of the city. Including the dormitory houses, seventy 
buildings are used to carry on the work of the University. Of these, nineteen 
are devoted to teaching and eleven to hospital purposes. The others are the 
dormitories; museums; library; dining, alumni and recreation halls, and the 
gymnasium and athletic buildings. Besides these, many of the fraternities 
and the Mask and Wig Club occupy buildings of their own, while the Christian 
Association has a large building in the Schuylkill river district devoted to 
settlement work. 



West Philadelphia, which is now the educational centre of the city, is the 

home of a number of other important institutions. Drexel Institute is only 

two blocks away; Ursinus Theological Seminary, one block; Philadelphia 

Divinity School, a few blocks; the Wistar Institute of Anatomy is on the 

campus and affiliated with the University; the new Evans Dental Museum, 

which is to cost one million dollars, will be within a block of the western IN AN 

boundary of the campus. Adjoining the University grounds on the south EDUCATIONAL 

are the Commercial Museums and the Philadelphia Hospital, the former CENTRE 

consisting of three large buildings in which commodities from all parts of 

the world are kept on exhibition. In the Philadelphia Hospital, there are, 

on an average, four thousand patients, who offer to the medical students of 

the University an exceptional opportunity for clinical study. 

The location of the University near the centre of a great city affords students ADVAN- 
unusual facilities for supplementing their courses by practical work and TAGEOUS 
for completing their academic training. Thus, the students in Finance and LOCATION 
Commerce and in Engineering, have the privilege of visiting many of the 
most extensive industrial plants in the world. The American Philosophical 
Society, Franklin Institute, the American Academy of Natural Sciences, 
and similar organizations have their headquarters and collections in the city, 
in which students interested in the sciences are always made welcome. Law 
students may witness the trial of cases in all the courts of the City and State, 
and in two of the Federal Courts. 

For almost a century and a half, Philadelphia has been recognized as the PHILADELPHIA 
medical centre of America. Within its limits there are six medical schools, A MEDICAL 
four dental schools, two schools of pharmacy and one of veterinary medicine, CENTRE 
and in all of these, over five thousand students are enrolled. There are also 
several post-graduate schools, a number of excellent museums and valuable 
medical libraries, and sixty-four general hospitals. Nowhere in America 
can such facilities for medical study and research be equalled. 

During the past year there were about three thousand six hundred students A COSMOPOLI- 
at Pennsylvania. The student body is a most cosmopolitan gathering, drawn TAN STUDENT 
from the citizens of thirty-three foreign nations, and containing representa- BODY 
fives from every state in the Union. 



HOUSTON It has always been the aim of the faculty to encourage a spirit of fellowship 

CLUB among the students. The first and most effective step in this direction was 

the organization of the Houston Club, in 1894, which, in the fall of 1896, 
moved into one of the most handsome and spacious club houses in Phila- 
delphia. Houston Hall is the gift of H. H. Houston — a memorial to his son 
who died while in college. About the Club as a centre, revolves the social 
life of the University. The building was designed by two graduates of the 
Architectural Department, and is constructed of Philadelphia grey stone. 
Approaching the imposing entrances on either side, one reaches first a broad 
terrace, then a spacious vestibule, and then a large reception room, in which 
all things are suggestive of ease and comfort. From its heavy beamed ceilings 
hang huge chandeliers of dull brass; upon the walls, panelled with quartered 
oak, are trophies of the hunt, and rare paintings and engravings; scattered 
over the room and around the high open fire places are heavy oak and leather 
upholstered easy chairs and settees ; the highly polished hard wood floors are 
covered with oriental rugs. 

Everything about the Club is suggestive of recreation in its best sense. At 
the east end of the main hall is the Club library and reading room, where 
may be found the daily papers and all the latest magazines; and upon the 
shelves, a library of about ten thousand volumes. At the west end of the 
main hall is the entrance to the billiard and pool rooms. Comfortable win- 
dow seats are provided along all windows and in the alcoves. The basement 
is fitted up with tables for chess and checkers, bowling alleys, a book store 
and a barber shop. 

The trophy rooms on the second floor are filled with hundreds of banners, 
silver mugs, pitchers, cups, medals, etc. -rewards of many hard earned victories. 
The walls are hung with pictures of the various 'Varsity athletic teams. On 
this floor also are the rooms of the Christian Association, a dining room and 
a large auditorium with a pipe organ. This auditorium is used for the Sun- 
day services, lectures, smokers and student entertainments. The second floor 
of the Club house is so arranged that the whole may be thrown into one 
large hall, and is frequently used for balls, dances, dinners and receptions. 
On the third floor are society rooms, guest chambers, a musical club room, 
a dark room for photographers, and the offices of "Old Penn," the official 
weekly paper of the University. Every male student, upon matriculating, 
becomes a member of the Club and of the gymnasium. 



The Christian Association is an active factor in the moral and social interests CHRISTIAN 
of the students, and frequently extends invitations to the entire student body ASSOCIATION 
to attend lectures, entertainments or social functions. Under its supervision 
is conducted the settlement work in the Schuylkill River district, where a 
spacious building has been constructed for the better carrying out of its pur- 
poses. 



The dormitory houses of Pennsylvania are twenty-three in number, all erected THE 
since 1895. The buildings are of the late Tudor Gothic style, and are named DORMITORIES 
for their donors, or for distinguished alumni. The three court yards around 
which they are built are popularly known as "The Little Quad," "The Tri- 
angle," and "The Big Quad." The latter, when finally enclosed, will include 
a number of additional new houses, a dining room, and a large chapel. All 
of the houses face the court yards, the entrance to which is through a beautiful 
gateway known as "Memorial Tower," erected in memory of the sons of the 
University who served in the Army and Navy of the United States during the 
recent war with Spain. This one entrance insures privacy to the residents 
and protects them from outside intrusion. The houses are not communicating. 
Each has its own staircase and entrance leading into one of the court yards, 
and no house has more than fifty occupants. On every floor are lavatories 
and shower baths with hot and cold water. 

Student self-government is a feature of the dormitory system, no restriction 
being placed upon the freedom of the residents. The rooms are cheerful 
and homelike; the interior woodwork is all finished in dark quartered oak, 
and the furniture is of the same material. Many of the rooms have com- 
fortable window seats and open fire places. Thus the poorest student re- 
ceives the same service and attention as the wealthiest, the only difference 
being in the location and size of the rooms. 

The three court yards, the "Dorm Steps," "The Terrace," and other familiar 
spots about the dormitories are favorite meeting places for rehearsals of 
college songs and cheers, for mass meetings and re-unions, and for cele- 
brating victories. 

Although the comforts and conveniences are greater, and the environment 
more pleasant than those of the average boarding house, the cost of living 
at the University dormitories is somewhat less. 



PHYSICAL The general mingling of the students, incident to dormitory life, and fostered 

EDUCATION by the Houston Club and the Gymnasium, has greatly strengthened the fel- 
lowship of the students, so that Pennsylvania may claim to be one of the most 
democratic of Universities. In athletics, too, the regulations recently adopted 
by the Department of Physical Education are bringing about conditions long 
desired by the faculty. The students who show exceptional ability, and who 
make the 'Varsity teams, are no longer the only ones who use the Gymnasium, 
the athletic fields and boat houses, but all students are now obliged to take 
some form of physical exercise. 

Each man, upon matriculating, is examined by the Director of Physical Ed- 
ucation, who is also a professor in the Medical Department, and who pre- 
scribes the amount and character of exercise necessary to keep the student 
in health while at the University, a monthly record being kept of his develop- 
ment. This method, not only gives many men, whose ability might otherwise 
never have been discovered, opportunities to make athletic teams; but, what 
is more important, the men leave the University better equipped physically 
for their future work. 



GYMNASIUM The Gymnasium and Franklin Field are the generous gift of thousands of 
AND loyal sons of the University of Pennsylvania. The building is 275 feet long, 

FRANKLIN and consists of a central portion with two towers and two wing buildings; 

FIELD the architecture is English Colonial. On the ground floor is a swimming 

pool 100 feet long by 30 feet wide and nine feet maximum depth. Many 
exciting aquatic contests, such as races and water polo games are held in 
the pool. The Gymnasium proper, on the second floor, is 150 feet long by 75 
feet wide, with a sky light over almost the entire room. It is fitted up with 
the most approved apparatus. In other parts of the building, and in the 
wings, are the offices of the Athletic Association and of the Physical Director, 
also rooms for fencing, sparring, wrestling, and for crew practice, shower 
baths, lavatories and dressing rooms for home and visiting teams. The 
building to the north of the Gymnasium is the training house and dormitory 
for the use of students while representing the University on her Athletic 
teams. This building is connected with the Gymnasivmi by an underground 
tunnel. 



Every sport, popular among American college students is supported by the ATHLETICS 
students of the University of Pennsylvania. During the spring and the early 
weeks of summer, most of the out-of-door sports are in vogue, such as base- 
ball, track athletics, cricket, tennis, lacrosse, golf and rowing. Foot-ball is 
the principal attraction during autumn, although cross country running, 
gunning and some of the spring sports and games receive attention. Hockey 
is the only out-of-door sport during the winter. Among the indoor sports 
and games, popular among Pennsylvania's students during the winter seasons 
are basket-ball, wrestling, fencing, sparring, swimming and water polo, gym- 
nastics, etc. 

The home contests are usually held on Franklin Field, which is fitted up with 
a quarter mile track, a base-ball diamond, a football field, and accommodations 
for field sports. Stands, with a seating capacity of 23,000, enclose three 
sides of the field, the fourth side being taken up by the Gymnasium building 
and two memorial gates. Underneath the stands are indoor tracks and the 
winter training quarters for the track team. 

At the annual relay races, athletes from every section of the country meet 
on Franklin Field to compete in track and field sports. In the spring of 1906, 
almost three thousand athletes from three hundred different schools and 
colleges, were entered in these games. 



With the approach of winter, social functions begin, and each day has its SOCIAL LIFE 
public lecture, debate or other intellectual contest. Fraternities give teas 
and dances; the clubs and societies of the professional departments give 
periodical smokers, annual dinners and banquets; the glee, banjo and mandolin 
clubs, and other musical organizations give concerts; the various dramatic 
societies their annual plays; and the literary societies hold their debates with 
similar societies from other colleges; and debating teams selected from the 
entire student body meet teams from other universities. 



Student life at any institution would be incomplete without the usual college COLLEGE 
papers. Pennsylvania is no exception to this rule; its students publish a PAPERS 
daily paper, one literary monthly and one comic magazine. The University 
also publishes every week the "Chronicle," containing a list of events to take 



place the week following the day of publication, and "Old Penn," a weekly 
review of all University news. The General Alumni Society sends to each 
of its members a monthly magazine, "The Alumni Register." The Law, 
Dental and Medical Departments also publish magazines devoted to the 
interests of their respective professions. 



JSASK AND WIG Every spring the students and alumni look forward with pleasant anticipation 

CLUB AND to the annual production of the Mask and Wig Club. During each of the 

DRAMATIC past eighteen years, this society has successfully staged a new "show," in 

AFFAIRS which under-graduates only have taken part. The play is usually a pictorial 

extravaganza or burlesque, and is always from the pen of one of its graduate 

members, as is much of the music. There are seventy-five students in the 

production. "Shylock and Co., Bankers," the 1906 production, was given 

nine times in a Philadelphia theatre during Easter week, and six times in 

other cities, before houses crowded to the doors. The Mask and Wig owns 

its Club house where many delightful and unique entertainments are held 

during the season. This notable organization in the last two years has 

presented to the trustees of the University the sum of ten thousand dollars 

to create a "Mask and Wig Trust Fund." 

Besides the Mask and Wig play, the Deutscher Verein, a society of students 
interested in the German language and literature, annually gives a play in 
German; the French Society, the "Cercle Francais," each year produces one 
in French. Two years ago, the College students gave two remarkably suc- 
cessful presentations of Euripides's tragedy, "Iphigenia Among the Taurians" 
in Greek. The students of the Architectural Department also give an annual 
play. 



STUDENT There are numerous student organizations within the University. Member- 

ORGANIZA- ■ ship in many of them, such as the musical societies, dramatic clubs, auto- 
TIONS mobile, camera and athletic clubs, the Guides and Christian Association, is 

open to all students; membership in others is restricted to students of the 
professional departments, to men of particular political or religious beliefs 
or of certain scholastic standing. At present there are forty Greek letter 
fraternities represented by chapters at the University; twelve general societies, 



twenty college societies, twelve medical societies, eight law clubs, three dental 
societies, one veterinary society, eleven preparatory school clubs, seventeen 
under-graduate class organizations, and forty-nine sectional clubs; the last 
named being composed of men coming from the same countries, states or 
counties. Besides scores of class organizations, there are also eight local 
and thirty-four alumni societies. 



The University has always celebrated the Twenty-second day of February CELEBRATIONS 
(Washington's Birthday) as " University Day." Among those who have de- 
livered orations on these occasions in recent years were the late President 
McKinley, President Roosevelt, His Excellency Wu Ting Fang, Hon. Seth Low, 
Bishop Potter, Bishop Doane, Dr. Henry VanDyke, and Governor Pennypacker. 
Peculiar to the students of Pennsylvania are their annual "Bowl Fight," and 
the "May Day Sports." The " Bowl Fight " marks the end of all differences 
between the sophomore and freshman classes, it having largely supplanted 
the numerous class fights, cane rushes and hazings. The " May Day Sports " 
had their origin when, in 1898, the students in the Dormitories, attired in 
their night clothes, were called out by some of their number to celebrate 
Dewey's victory. Ever since, the night of the First of May has been set apart 
for a student parade, a huge bonfire, wrestling, tug-of-war and other sports. 



While each of the professional departments has an extensive museum devoted MUSEUMS 
to special collections principally of interest to those connected with their 
respective studies, the collections most generally interesting are in the Free 
Museum of Science and Art which occupy a building directly opposite Frank- 
lin Field. It contains an extremely valuable collection of antiquities and the 
famous Babylonian bricks, which are second in value only to those in the 
British Museum. These antiquities were secured by expeditions sent by the 
University to excavat« on the site of ancient Nippur in Babylonia. Among 
other rich exhibits are fifty pieces of Grseco-Roman papyri, which include the 
oldest known fragment of the Gospels. In another section of the building 
is a rare collection of objects from Buddhist countries, arranged by the curator 
as a " Buddhist Temple," and there is also a large collection of engraved 
gems and talismans. 



The American, Etruscan, Egyptian and Mediterranean Sections are very com- 
plete. There has been added lately to the Mediterranean Section a valuable 
collection of bronze reproductions of the best specimens of Greek and Roman 
sculpture found in the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. 
When completed, the museum building will cover twelve acres of ground. 
The section now on the campus will form about one-seventh of the completed 
group. A large dome will dominate the entire structure, from which broad 
galleries will extend eastward and westward to two secondary domes, each 
connected with two groups of buildings, the same as that now on the campus, 
one group facing north and the other south. The present building is a part of 
the western group, and consists of a series of buildings facing three sides of a 
court yard. In the pond, directly in front of the main entrance, is a beautiful 
collection of lotus plants and water lilies. The formal gardens of the 
museum, with their stately poplars, trim hedges, terraces and walks, the 
stone vases and marble seats, lend an additional charm to a building which 
is unique in this country, the architecture being of a style which prevailed in 
the north of Italy from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. 



THE LIBRARY The Library of the University contains about 250,000 volumes and 50,000 
unbound pamphlets. Many rare and valuable special libraries are included 
in the collection. The books, except those of the departmental libraries, 
are in the General Library building, a large brick and red sandstone structure 
situated near the centre of the campus. The building is in two sections, the 
one being a glass covered, fire proof stack; the other containing the reading 
rooms and alcoves in which the reference libraries are deposited. The library 
is open from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. 



DEPARTMENTS The courses in " The College," form several distinct groups, and lead to various 
degrees. Under the Arts group are included the courses in Arts and Science, 
the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, the School of Music, and the 
courses in Biology. In the Towne Scientific School group, are the courses in 
Architecture, Chemistry, Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering. Also 
belonging to The College are the Courses for Teachers, the Summer School 
and the Evening School Courses. 



The other Departments of the University are, the Department of Philosophy; 
the Law, Medical, Dental and Veterinary Departments; the University Hos- 
pital, Wistar Institute of Anatomy, Laboratory of Hygiene, Veterinary Hos- 
pital, the General Library, Department of Archaeology, Flower Astronomical 
Observatory, Department of Physical Education and the Training School for 
Nurses. 



Under the new group and elective system, the Courses in the College are so COURSES IN 
arranged that students may get their degrees in three, four or five years. THE COLLEGE 
Every man in Arts and Science must take sixty units of class room or labora- 
tory work, and while he may divide these in any way he sees fit, most of the 
students take fifteen units a year and complete their courses in the customary 
four years. A certain number of courses are required, others may be elected 
in certain prescribed groups, while still others are free electives. The system 
is so elastic, that after the student has taken the twenty-two units of required 
work, he may practically elect the remainder. The courses lead to the degree 
of A. B. and B. S. Most of the instruction in the Arts and Science course is 
given in College Hall, a picturesque ivy-covered building, and the oldest on 
the campus. 



The course of four years in the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce THE 
leads to the degree of B. S. in Economics. The school was founded in 1881 WHARTON 
by Joseph Wharton, and was the first of its kind. Its efficiency, and the SCHOOL 
success of its graduates, have resulted in the founding of similar schools in 
other universities. Although a part of the College, it occupies a separate 
building, known as " Logan Hall." A handsome building is to be erected 
for the school in the near future — the gift of the founder, for whom the school 
was named. 



The principal subjects of the Wharton School curriculum are also given in EVENING 

the " Evening School " by the members of the faculty during the winter sea- COURSES IN 

son. The courses are given four nights a week, and the classes are well FINANCE 
attended. 



SUMMER Since 1904, the College Faculty has been conducting a summer school, in 

SCHOOL AND which most of the college courses are given for six weeks during the 

TEACHERS' summer. The school has met with great success, and students who 

COURSES have the necessary qualifications for admission to the College are given 

credit for work done. There is also a series of courses offered to teachers 

and prospective teachers given at hours which do not conflict with their class 

room work. 



TOWNE The Towne Scientific School includes the courses in Architecture, Mechanical 

SCIENTIFIC Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemistry and 
SCHOOL Chemical Engineering. All the Engineering courses, except those in 

Chemistry, are given in the new Engineering Building. This is the 
largest building on the campus, having a floor area of 128,000 square 
feet, and is equipped with every apparatus used for instruction in an engi- 
neering school. 

The courses in Architecture are given on the upper floors of College Hall. 
These quarters, while crowded, are admirably adapted to the work of the 
school, which is of the highest character. The alumni of the school are now 
raising a fund for a new building. 

The College courses in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering are given in 
the John Harrison Laboratory of Chemistry. It contains well equipped 
laboratories for every branch of chemistry. 

The Randal Morgan Laboratory of Physics is a building in which there 
are laboratories and class rooms equipped with valuable apparatus for 
conducting the general courses in Physics, and for post-graduate work and 
research. 

Instruction in Botany and Zoology is given in Biological Hall and the Vivarium, 
which are located near the entrance to the Botanic Gardens along Hamilton 
Walk. The Hall contains a number of class rooms and special laboratories, 
the herbarium with fifty thousand sheets of plants, a museum and a library 
of seven thousand volumes, in which are included the Bartram and Stille 
collections. In the Vivarium, which adjoins Biological Hall, are a number 
of fresh and salt water aquaria containing a great variety of marine and fresh 
water animals. The Botanic Gardens and green houses, in which there are 
over three thousand varieties of plants, are much frequented by botanists and 
plant-lovers. 



While practically all the courses in Astronomy are given in College Hall, the ob- 
servations are made in the Flower Observatory buildings on Observatory Hill, 



These buildings and special laboratories devoted to specific subjects given LABORATORY 
in the College, enable the faculty, in a measure, to use the same system of TEACHING 
instruction as that employed in the professional departments. The students 
are no longer taught by the didactic lecture system alone, but must supple- 
ment their studies by actual work in the laboratories and machine shops 
where their hands and eyes are trained as well as their minds. 



The University of Pennsylvania was one of the first of the great medical MEDICAL 
schools to establish special laboratories for the instruction of students. DEPARTMENT 

From time to time its facilities have been increased to keep pace with the 
demands of modern science. To this progressive spirit is due the erection 
of the new building for the laboratories of Physiology, Pathology and Phar- 
macology, unequalled, in America or Europe. These laboratories have been 
equipped with the most approved apparatus, rendering it possible to give to each 
student the most thorough courses in practical physiology, in the physiological 
action of drugs, in pathological histology and in morbid anatomy. The large 
pathological museum, the reading and seminar rooms, the special libraries, and 
the provisions for advanced and research work are features of the new building. 
The courses in the other fundamental subjects. Anatomy, Chemistry and 
Bacteriology, are given in special buildings provided for these subjects — 
Logan Hall, Wistar Institute of Anatomy, the Robert Hare Laboratory of 
Chemistry and the Laboratory of Hygiene. 

While giving suitable attention to the scientific branches, the claim for dis- 
tinction of Pennsylvania's Medical School has always rested upon its clinical 
facilities. Students are prepared for the practice of medicine rather than 
for purely scientific careers. The practical, therefore, has taken precedence 
over the merely theoretical. Besides the general clinics in all branches there 
are clinical conferences and ward classes, the former being clinics on a small 
scale with active participation of the students, the latter being bedside 
classes in which an instructor demonstrates cases to small groups of from 
five to ten students. The fourth-year men are assigned to duty in the 



University Hospital wards, assisting the Resident Physicians in the daily 
study of the cases, under the direct supervision of the visiting chiefs and 
their assistants, whom the students accompany in the daily "rounds." 
This work is entirely practical and consists of all the routine daily duties 
of the resident physician. 

HOSPITAL The University Hospital covers two city blocks, and includes sixteen wards 

FACILITIES having a capacity of almost four hundred beds. There are also six amphi- 

theatres for clinical teaching, and surgical and medical dispensaries for gen- 
eral and special diseases. In the group of buildings forming the University 
Hospital, there is one large central building devoted to general hospital work ; 
the Gibson Wing for Chronic Diseases, used chiefly for the treatment of heart 
and lung diseases; the D. Hayes Agnew Memorial Pavilion, which contains 
four wards and three amphitheatres, and which is used principally for clinical 
instruction, it was named in honor of the great American Surgeon who 
had so long and important a career at the University. The William Pepper 
Laboratory of Clinical Medicine was the gift of Provost William Pepper as a 
memorial to his father. The building is devoted to graduate work and pro- 
vides facilities for the prosecution of minute studies and original research. 
To the rear of the Agnew Pavilion has been added a wing for the X-Ray De- 
partment, which now forms a most important part of the hospital group. 
Spacious sun-parlors have also recently been added to the rear of all the 
principal hospital buildings. Among other buildings in the hospital yard 
are the Isolation Building, The Maternity Hospital, Obstetrical Pavilion, 
The Mortuary and Chapel, the Laundry and the Dormitories for Nurses. 
At least eighty per cent, of the members of the graduating classes secure 
positions as resident physicians in hospitals, the demand upon the University 
of Pennsylvania from institutions in Philadelphia and vicinity being always 
greater than the supply. 

The University Hospital facilities are supplemented by those of the Philadelphia 
Hospital, with four thousand beds, and by numerous other nearby hospitals. 



DENTAL Instruction in Dental Science and Surgery is given in a building facing the 

DEPARTMENT new Engineering Hall. The entire second floor of the main building, i8o 
by 50 feet, is used as a clinical operating room. 



The principal lecture room seats 550 students, and is in a wing attached to 
the rear of the main building. On the ground floor and in the basement 
are the museum and special library, clinic rooms and laboratories devoted 
to experimental and practical work. 

The method of instruction used in the Dental School is like that of the Medical 
Department. Each student has an operating chair and a complete set of 
instruments; and is obliged to do a certain amount of clinical work each 
term. An average of thirty thousand operations annually are performed 
by the students. The hundreds of students who attend the school invariably 
represent from twenty to twenty-five foreign countries. 

Veterinary science is rapidly coming to have the same recognition in America VETERINARY 
as it has in Europe. The Veterinary School of the University of Pennsyl- DEPARTMENT 
vania was the second among the dozen schools now in existence in the United 
States. It has a library of three thousand volumes, and the new building 
and hospital, when completed, will cover an area 260 feet by 210 feet. The 
plans for these buildings were prepared only after the Dean had visited the 
leading veterinary schools and hospitals in Europe and the United States. 
The most valuable features of each have been combined with many ideas en- 
tirely original with the University teaching staff. The course at present 
extends over a period of three years. 



The law school building is at present the largest building in the United States THE LAW 
devoted exclusively to the study of the law. The building was constructed SCHOOL 
with the idea of assisting the faculty in giving to each student a practical as 
well as a theoretical knowledge of the law. The case system has replaced 
the old lecture system and the students are obliged to work out for themselves 
the principles of law from the cases. The two undergraduate reading 
rooms contain nearly six hundred separate desks. Each student, upon 
matriculating, has one of these desks assigned to him, and is thus enabled to 
enjoy an undisturbed place of study during his three years at the law school. 
The graduate reading room contains twenty-six large tables which are assigned 
to advanced students and men engaged in legal research. The three reading 
rooms adjoin the Biddle Law Library stack room, which contains forty- 
one thousand volumes. In other parts of the building there are several 



lecture rooms, a debating hall, a moot court room, and ten rooms devoted 
to student clubs and societies. 

DEPARTMENT The Department of Philosophy, or Graduate School offers advanced instruc- 
OF tion in various branches of literature and science to students holding a bacca- 

PHILOSOPHY laureate degree in Arts, Letters, Philosophy or in Pure or Applied Science, 
The faculty includes sixty-one professors and lecturers. 

A notable feature of the school is its most generous system of fellowships 
and scholarships on the George Leib Harrison Foundation including six 
Fellowships for Research, nineteen Fellowships, and eight Scholarships. 
There are in addition two Fellowships in Physics, six Fellowships for Women, 
and thirty University Scholarships. It is a significant fact that seventy per 
cent, of the students, who now number more than three hundred, are grad- 
uates of other institutions. 

The various branches offered for special study are included under the fol- 
lowing heads: Archaeology and Ethnology; Astronomy; Botany and Zoology; 
Chemistry; Classical Languages; Economics, Politics and Sociology; English; 
Geology and Mineralogy; Germanic Languages; History; Indo-European 
Philology; Mathematics; Philosophy, Ethics, Psychology and Pedagogy; 
Physics; Romanic Languages; Semitics. 

ENTRANCE The standard of entrance examinations to all departments, except for the De- 

partment of Philosophy, is equivalent to that required for graduation from the 
best private and public preparatory schools of the country. In the Department 
of Law the applicant must be twenty years of age or present a college degree. 



THE ALUMNI The University of Pennsylvania is not the growth of a few years, or the gift 
of a single philanthropist, or even of a small group of wealthy citizens. The 
generous assistance of the City and State; the loyalty and self-sacrificing 
spirit of the alumni and faculty in the last one hundred and sixty-six years — 
all have contributed to the success of an institution which has graduated 
more than twenty-five thousand men, and which has buildings, grounds 
and equipment valued at thirteen million dollars — a University which is 
increasing each year not only in wealth, resources and in the nmnber of 
students, but equally in the quality and importance of its work. 















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2. Class of 1873 Memorial Gate- 

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2. Dormitories—" Little Quad " 

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1 . Walk along the Dormitory Terrace 

2. Dormitories along Woodland Avenue 

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1. The Vivarium 

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1. Nurses Dormitories 

2. Isolation Building 

3. Glimpse of the Hospital Lawn 

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1. Maternity Hospital Building 

2. Auxiliary Maternity Buildings 
3 Hospital Laundry Building 

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1. Staircase in Law School Building 

2. Sharswood Hall 

3. Section of the Hallway 

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2. Plan of Proposed Exlensiori of 

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1. Zeta Psi House 






2. Delta Phi House 






3. Phi Kappa Psi House 






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1. Phi Delta Theta House 






2. Psi Upsilon House 






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Mask and Wig Club House Grill 
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3. A Greek Play Cast 






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1. Gymnasium Indoor Drill 

2. Gymnasium Outdoor Drill 

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1. Watching Bowl Fight from Dor- 

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1. Campus on Commencement Day 

2. Seniors Going to Hall on Com- 

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